Breadcutter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Breadcutter is a noun meaning A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.
Meaning
A device for cutting bread, often consisting of a platform and a hinged blade.
More Meanings
- A person employed to cut bread.
Example Sentences
Our cafeterie was a murky cellar measuring twenty feet by seven by eight high, and so crowded with coffee-urns, breadcutters and the like that one could hardly move without banging against something.
1975, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, New York: Harper & Row, Vol. II, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 273, He would willingly have cut six sides off the bread ration too, but he had no other bread, and he therefore limited himself to holding his bread ration over the hot plate, burning from all six sides the microbes implanted there by the hands of the bread-cutters […]
Word Forms
- breadcutters
Related Words
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